Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Back in the summer I went to a Cacti show at the Lydden parish hall,and Mts Hollingsbee was there to and I was being told all about Cacti and how to grow them.
I came back from Spain with afew thats why I went to the show in the first place to find more out about them well I left the show with about 30 Cacti and now grow them myself I have potted them all on and they are growing well in my greenhouse and must say the flowers you get from them are great ,I am into growing them now in a big way geting some most weeks ,they are very easy to grow on but do not over water them again you can all ways come up and have a look at them but it is reading their names out that not easy.I am about to get one more green house to house them all ,they are not real greenhouse but I can walk in and it is hot inside they cost on line about £35 each . I hope they will put the show back on soon so I can buy some more they are dear to buy in the Garden centres about £2.50 each for a very small one but at the show I got about 30 for about £7.+ the information sheets telling me all about the ones I have got. Its a very good hoppy try it.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"a very good hoppy"
Moral...
Never grow cacti...in your bare feet. [Nor in your boots, neither.]
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thats a good one but very true as my cat found out
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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If they have prickles, keep them well away from children and pets !
And keep a pair of tweezers handy !
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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had similar experiences with the small spikey ones, trying to repot them should be made an olympic event.
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I have some huge cacti - they may not be show winners but they're certainly big! I've had them for years. Lovely things, but not the kind of thing you want to try to catch if you accidentally knock them off the windowsill!
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Handle difficult cacti with long surgical tweezers !!
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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very good and true I still have the marks in my hands,but alot more carefull now.
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Had to chuckle at the cartoon. Many years ago my Nan was in bed when she heard my Grandad come home after a party. She heard him stumble on the stairs and crashing into the bedroom obviously the worse for wear. He started cussing and seemed to take forever to collapse into bed. When she woke in the morning she discovered the dressing table mirror covered in small pieces of elastoplast and sticking out from under the sheets was Grandad's bare bum covered in small cuts from the broken whiskey bottle in his trouser pocket!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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What a wast of good whiskey
Just to add my Cacti will be ready to show next year at a show, most are in their own pots I have one or two in pots with each other I have not lost one yet they are all growing after I done a repot ,I will find out the names some time and put them on the forum when I find out how to get photos up I will also show them on the forum one or two are in flower aswell yes must say I am please with myself first time of growing them and they are doing well.
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Reduce the watering Vic as the weather gets colder, and they won't stand frost of course.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thank you aready done that and they are inside
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We was in Warmer today for a few hours went to their garden centre on the main rd got myself a cacti they have a hot house so they have a few Cacti in there then we wal;k around to the sea front to the baker had some food and drink in there very nice small place to sit and eat then we got some of their bread and rolls that were cooked a few hrs before in there but got very very wet.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I got some more when down in Cornwall they are all growing very well I have repoted all of them now about 36 in number some have flowers on them they will take some looking after in the cold weather sets in I have them uncover and will also put hay around them will have a heater on but only when I am there.Alos the cost of heating them 24hours aday is to much for my pocket.I am hoping to show them next year.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I cannot stop myself buying them now,
I might need to go into rehap
Day and night 24/7 I am out there caring for them,please I need help
to try and stop me.
I have what my Dr said the Cacti bug there is nothing he can give me for it to get me off them.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Perhaps you should try a hypnotherapist who could give you a fear of needles.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I will go to anyone for help Mr Garstin,yes dare I say his name Mr Sansum that is how bad I have got it
But I like what you said
I will try it do you know agood one
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Just come back in I have put them all to bed now nice and hot in there for them, and my other plants to they will be going out soon just waiting for them to get bigger.I have reported them some time ago so will not be long I get most of them from bid-up on the Tv they are good to.
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Don't get like this Vic -
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Wel my dear they are growing I even feed them with plant food and sing to them,and my own way to make plants grow,I tell them my life story.
And it is working.
